Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am sure the Secretary General would love to come back in again. Every time the witnesses have come in, the issue of housing expenditure has come up. It came out of the old rent supplement arrangement and the HAP made it more permanent. I totally agree with the Deputy on what needs to happen with the RAS. I understand the RAS was to be phased out but I do not know what happened in that regard. There was some talk of it over the past couple of years. We can add this to our work programme. It will probably happen that another member will have a housing issue that dovetails into this. There is a big piece of work to be done on this in a report.